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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I used my MYFitness Pal app for a couple months to lose some weight. It's very eye-opening to see how many calories I was actually eating. Once I lost a few pounds, I kind of got into a routine and could figure out how much I could eat to lose weight without the app. I've maintained my weight loss for a couple years now (I'm 5'2" and usually around 113 pounds). I workout about three days a week (very hard workouts). I'm 49 years old.[/quote]

I'm honestly curious how this works for so many people. Every time I try to track my calories I just end up being discouraged and quiting because it's nearly impossible to do. Unless you eat mostly foods that come out of packages, how do you know how many calories are exactly in your chicken salad? Or how much oatmeal you ended up eating from your serving (was it 1/2 cup or really 1/3 cup)? Are you actually measuring with cups and spoons all your food, even for a few weeks in the beginning? Are you making pretty much all your own food and not eating out ever?

It just seems so daunting and impossible but then again I'm still overweight and maybe that is just my excuse for actually being accountable.[/quote]

For home cooked foods it is easy if you make recipes with calorie counts, like from Cooking Light, so you would know how many calories are in the portion of lasagna or meatballs or soup.  That usually takes care of dinner and then I eat simpler foods the rest of the day -- breakfast is Greek yogurt, chia seeds and berries, lunch is a really big salad with lots of veggies, a protein like tuna or eggs, and snacks are things like walnuts, Apple with peanut butter, a baby bel cheese, carrots and hommus[/quote]

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